J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

Multiple stringed instrument players and musical performers from across the country came together to downtown Owensboro this weekend, playing the likes of banjo, guitar and mandolin tunes during the ...

Noam Pikelny won’t be far from home when the renowned banjo maestro — a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning acoustic quintet Punch Brothers who now calls the town of Danby his home — brings ...

The iconic North Carolina bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs would have turned 100 on Jan. 6. On Saturday, the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby will host a special concert to honor his memory with the ...

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

This is a longer version of an article that appeared in print and online under the title “Tense Strings.” Kaia Kater never wanted to mix her racial identity with her music. She grew up in a mixed-race ...

The Osborne Brothers played together publicly for the first time in 1953 in Knoxville, Tennessee. However, it would be more than a decade before they finally got a break when they met Doyle Wilburn of ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...